My understanding is that diabetics have a pancreas that does not produce insulin or the body has stopped reacting to insulin, which mean they can get really high blood sugar because nothing metabolizes is.
But why does that cause diabetic people to also get low blood sugar more often than non-diabetics? If I eat a cake, my body produces a bunch of insulin to metabolize, then I go work out for an hour, my blood sugar won’t be as low as a diabetic who did the same.
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Because your pancreas is responding to the amount of sugar available and activity and reduces insulin production.
To vastly simplify, your body has a way of storing sugar from blood and releasing it back into the blood, as well as signaling mechanisms that react. It’s like a thermostat that can both heat or cool depending on the temperature.
There is storage as glycogen (chaining sugar molecules together) as well as fat… which involves more chemical transformations.
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